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Facundo Bueso Sanllehí Born Facundo Bueso Sanllehí

February 5, 1905

Mexico City, Mexico

Died January 24, 1960

Boating accident (Isla Verde beaches), Puerto Rico

Resting Place Cementerio Buxeda Memorial, Cupey, Puerto Rico

Alma Mater University of Puerto Rico (BS)

University of Chicago (MS, PhD )

Parents Francisco Bueso, Eulalia Sanllehí

Siblings Franciso ("Paco"), Andrés

Spouse Carmen Luisa Nieve

Children Hector, Carmín, Luis

Thesis Rotational Analysis of the 2900Å Band of CO2+ (1941)

Doctoral Advisor Robert Mulliken (Nobel Prize of Chemistry 1966)

Guggenheim Fellow Physics (1940, 1941)

(February 5, 1905 - January 24, 1960) was a physicist and an educator.

He was born on February 5, 1905, in Mexico City, Mexico. His family was forced to flee to Spain in 1915 because of the Mexican Revolution. Later in 1917 they moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1927 he graduated form the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and became a physics professor there even before graduating. He became a member of Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity. In 1941 he earned his PhD from the University of Chicago, then in 1943 he was named dean of the UPRRP College of Natural Sciences; he was the first person to hold that position. In 1950, he did research on the colony of monkeys located at Cayo Santiago in Puerto Rico.

In 1940 and in 1941 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Latin Americans for his studies in the field of band spectra.

He had a weekly 15-minute science radio show on WIPR called Átomos de Luz (Atoms of Light) from 1949 until his death.

In 1950 he was exalted to the Puerto Rico football and volleyball halls of fame. The UPRRP College of Natural Sciences Building is named after him.

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 * 1) It doesn't highlight he studied Physics in Chicago with Michelson and Compton.
 * 2) The reference is a wordpress page, but it should be Autobiography article published when he died by the UPR
 * 3) Could include detail of his parents, spouse and children. His father did woodwork in Chapultepec Castle.
 * 4) He was Director of the Department of Physics and also Dean of the Faculty.
 * 5) His contribution of science communication to the public is incomplete.
 * 6) The title of his PhD thesis is not given, his thesis advisor received a Nobel Prize.
 * 7) I think the research in Cayo Santiago is a

Early Life and Education
He was born in Mexico City on February 5, 1905. His father was Francisco Bueso, a master carpenter from Valencia, Spain. Francisco is credited for work at the Chapultepec Castle in Mexico (get reference). His mother was Eulalia Sanllehí from Cataluña, Spain. He had an older brother named Francisco ("Paco") and a younger brother named Andrés (artist/Painter). His family was forced to flee to Barcelona, Spain in 1915 because of the Mexican Revolution. In 1917 the family moves from Barcelona to Puerto Rico to work for Rafael Margarida in Río Piedras.

Facundo and his brothers Francisco and Andrés were enrolled in the "Escuela Modelo de la Universidad". This is an experimental school of the Education Faculty of the University of Puerto Rico. At the time classes were imparted in English. Facundo and his brothers did not know English. For this reason he was enrolled in the fourth grade but by the end of the school year he was reassigned to the grade corresponding to his age. He was the valedictorian of his class in 1919.

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